Overview
DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join our mission critical team in support of the United States Transportation Command.
This position requires a minimum of 2 days a week on-site support, on Wednesday and Thursday, at Scott AFB and an Active Secret clearance. Remote work is authorized on days when on-site support is not required.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Ensure Database Administrator (DBA) accounts are not used for non-DBA activities.
- Review vulnerabilities, develop implementation plans, and install patches as they become available.
- Provide support to maintain, implement, and enhance servers, databases, and applications that includes tuning and performing backups, database tuning, and backups, system patching, and other information assurance compliance.
- Maintain and sustain databases to 98.5% availability.
- Ensure server and database performance, ensure connectivity, and comply with all security and certification and accreditation requirements in the non-Prod and production environments.
- Perform database and application backup and recovery; monitor database and application performance; and complete custom structured query language (SQL), UNIX, or other scripting and programming as required based on the environment.
Qualifications
Active Secret clearanceBachelor's Degree and 5 years relevant work experience in maintaining database systems.Possesses strong database maintenance skills.Strong written and verbal communication skills.Ability to work independently or in a team environment.Comfortable working in an environment that includes Drupal, PHP, and MySQL.J-18808-Ljbffr